Front garden when we moved here 2007. It took years to get to this. After clearing, and discovering it went right down!, the wildlife pond was first thing we completed.
Made loads of errors and weather has changed to stronger winds. #gardeningUK #EnglishGardens #Wildlifegardens
Some garden transformations are beautiful.
This one is necessary.
Love Your Garden 2015 episode 3 creates a wildlife sanctuary for a teen whose life revolves around nature — and finally gives him a space that gives back.
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#WildlifeGardens #TherapeuticDesign
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) with two Eastern Bumblebees (Bombus Impatiens) feeding on a drooping umbel
Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) opening orange flowers in a low-growing bed of Wild Strawberries (Fragaria virginiana)
Red Milkweed Beetles mating on a budding milkweed inflorescence. Oleander Aphids (Aphis nerii) are clustered all over, beneath the umbel.
Little swing-top bottles of bright red milkweed shrub, with a Common Milkweed flower in a shot glad in the middle. There is a oval wooden bowl of drying rose petals as a backdrop, and the petals are notable a darker pink than the Milkweed flowers, but significantly less vibrant a color than the shrub
Our first episode, Milkweed, is live! We dive into milkweeds, their wildlife connections, Indigenous uses, foraging, recipes, and how to grow them. Listen now on Spotify, iHeart, Amazon & Apple Podcasts.
#nativeplants #wildlifegardens #pollinatorgardens #ecogardening #podcast #newpodcastalert
Another day at the green oasis - slowed down to half speed for a better appreciation of the wild pond and all who sail in her.
To attract Greenfinches plant a Field Maple tree. They are easy to grow and will proliferate in the local hedgerows, as their seeds spread.
#ukbirds #rewild #wildlifegardens
Happiness is a Scotch Thistle
And we have lots of them at Pond Cottage so we should be very happy (when we’re not reading headlines)
And the bees certainly are!
#pollinators #wildlifegardens #scottishgardenscheme
Our meadow in the front, stopping down toward the road, dominated by 10'+ elderberries. You can see Milkweeds, Witchgrass, Black-eyed Susans, and a large green Pokeweed to the right of the white-flowering Elderberries
A cute little Elderberry Sawfly on an elderberry leaf. I love hosting specialist species, and our little wildlife habitat is well enough balance that I don't need to worry about any native species getting out of control
Elderberry umbels: flowers where at the stalks meet at the top of a stem. The white flowers are popping out of the hedge row and leaning over our driveway
Our second episode will be on Elderberries: genus Sambucus. I'm doing the research now, and would be happy for any insights or articles you care to share. I have lots of material, but I could read more! Niladri is editing episode 1.
#nativeplants #podcast #ecologicallandscaping #wildlifegardens
I love milkweeds. I'm sure that will come through in our Asclepias episode. There's so much to say about a plant genus as interesting in and of itself as milkweed, with myriad wildlife and human connections.
#podcasting #nativeplants #grownative #wildlifegardens #ecoligicalgardening #wildfood.
Roesel's Bush Cricket in my 1st rec for my Coastal Whitstable Garden. Apparently this fully winged form diluta is seen in hot summers. #wildlifegardens #UKinsects #bushcrickets @kentfieldclub.bsky.social
For my very first post on Bluesky here's a photo of a favourite grass, the beautiful pink-tinged Hordeum jubatum, back-lit by evening sun. #gardens #gardeningcommunity #ornamentalgrasses #wildlifegardens
Meanwhile, at the oasis, a Goldfinch comes down to drink...
I can't remember a May where standing water has been such a scarce resource, for so many weeks....
#WaterforWildlife
🌿 #ukwildlife #birds #wildlifegardens
Got some pictures on some of these. Plodding on.
#provenanceindigenousplants
#australiannativeplants
#nativeplantsaustralia
#wildlifegardens
#rewilding
Working on small plant signs. Slow but steady.
#provenanceindigenousplants
#australiannativeplants
#nativeplantsaustralia
#wildlifegardens
#rewilding
Started a spreadsheet last year based on #BiodiversityIreland #Redlist species of Macro Moths & Butterflies for Ireland.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Includes larval host plant species for anyone wondering what plants they could be growing/encouraging in their #WildlifeGardens
My white flowering currant is alive with bees. At 8pm it was still buzzing with huge queen bumblebees and much smaller, black female hairy footed flower bees. Such a good shrub for wildlife. #bees #wildlifegardens
Another Song Thrush comes in to bathe.
Such beautiful birds.
Fieldfare; Redwing; Blackbird; Song Thrush - all coming to bathe regularly at the weedy pond..
Oh, for a Darkling Mistle Thrush but maybe that's being greedy.
#songthrush #birds #wildlifegardens #wildlifeponds #ukwildlife🌿
Determined bather awards 2024 (1)
Small bird category - Robin; Greenfinch; Chaffinch
Please repost for largest number of votes...
#ukbirding #birds #ukwildlife #wildlifegardens #wildswimming
What's for tea Ma? the wrenlets asked.
Fresh, Long Leg salad, said Jenny.
Oh no, not again, said the young trogs......
#wrens #birds #wildlifeuk #wildlifephotography #wildlifegardens
